Justus leads Indians; Galloway, Wilkerson win

Tuesday

Oct 29, 2013 at 1:37 AM

Regional cross country

Zac Justus took second among the individuals and Pontiac was able to advance out of the Class 3A Metamora Regional cross country meet Saturday. The Indians placed fourth overall, just one point behind East Peoria and will compete at the sectional this weekend at Maxwell Park in Normal. U-High won with 46 and Metamora was second at 53. East Peoria had 118 and PTHS collected 119 points. Bloomington was the fifth team at 122. Justus covered the three-mile course in 15 minutes, 10 seconds for second. Teammate Joshua McCoy was 10th overall at 15:34. Logan Durham came in 26th at 16:37 while Matt Hilleary was 39th (17:31) and Nate Durham was 42nd (17:38) to complete the scoring. Kory Wells (17:56) and Garrison Green (19:01) also competed. In the girls’ meet, two individuals advanced to sectional but the team was unable to move on. Lacey Kaminski was 39th overall at 20:52 and Staci Dixon was 47th at 21:34 to continue their respective seasons. Jordan Johns (22:58) also competed while Chloe Mayback (26:25) and Hannah McCoy (26:43) established personal-best marks.Class 1A Gardner-South Wilmington’s Daly Galloway won the girls’ race at the Class 1A Bishop McNamara Regional. Prairie Central’s boys’ and girls’ teams also moved on, as did Tri-Point’s boys and the GSW ladies. Galloway covered the course in 18:57 for the Panthers. Prairie Central’s Caitlyn Ifft was fourth overall at 20:04. Also competing for GSW were Savannah Baldau (21:52), Kitrina Hayner (24:14), Tori Hayner (25:13) and ReAnn Scoggin (26:12). Liz Walter was 15th overall and second for the Hawks at 21:31. Sydney Matson was 18th at 21:42. Also scoring were Clarissa Mueller (22:11) and Emma Fogarty (22:12) at 24th and 25th, respectively. Trystan Anderson (23:14) and Linnea Johnson (23:29) also raced. Amber McElroy of Tri-Point came in at 29:06. For the boys, Tri-Point’s Brandon Wilkerson won the race in 16:22 and the Chargers came in fifth as a team. Prairie Central was second as Beecher won. Brandon Allsup had a time of 16:43 for fifth place overall in leading PC. Avery Walters was eighth at 17:15. Bjorn Johnson had a time of 18:23 and Kyler Knapp came in at 18:25 as the pair finished 21st and 22nd. Seth Miller completed the scoring with a time of 19:34. Jacob Kilcullen (19:36) and Nathan Somers (19:48) also competed. Chris Scott was ninth overall and second for Tri-Point at 17:15. Also competing for the Chargers were Nick Thorson (18:08), Josh Thorson (19:41), Eric Monge (19:49), Jacob Bruner (20:18) and Wade Stephens (21:08). GSW had just four runners and did not field a full team. Michael Mankowski led the Panthers with a time of 17:49 to advance to the sectional. Nathan Ruffatti (18:27), Billy Evans (19:26) and Zander Harris (21:04) also competed.

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